Home Life

The GFWC Home Life Community service program is designed to inform members of issues that affect the well-being of individuals, families, and communities by providing opportunities and resources to meet and address needs through volunteering. Through this program clubs may develop and implement creative projects that promote a healthy lifestyle; increase awareness and prevention, research, and treatment of disease; target personal development; address issues of hunger, inadequate housing, and homelessness; and/or prevent or correct financial difficulties.​

4th of July Food Bags

Members of the Home Life committee filled bags with hot dogs, buns, baked beans, drink mix, potato chips, freeze pops, and condiments - all the fixin's needed for a 4th-of-July cookout, and donated them to the Northborough Food Pantry in what has become an annual tradition.

Sunscreen Dispenser

With the support of Kelly Scangas, NJWC installed a new sunscreen dispenser at Ellsworth-McAfee Park on Route 135, Northborough,MA.​"Don’t forget your sunscreen." This is the message that Kelly Scangas and the Northboro Junior Woman’s Club (NJWC) want to relay as people start to spend more time outdoors this season. ​To learn more, check out the recent article "Sunscreen dispenser installed at Ellsworth- McAfee Park" found in The Community Advocate.​

Habitat For Humanity

​On Saturday, April 29th, 2017. Habitat for Humanity held a "playhouse build", where a child from a military family chooses a theme and a playhouse is built and decorated according to that theme.Northboro Junior Woman's Club (NJWC) supported this worthy cause, and some of our members joined in on the fun and helped with the construction.